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Call for Proposals: Connecting Penn Research to Communities
The Community Engagement and Research (CEAR) Core of the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) at the University of Pennsylvania is making pilot grant funding available for research with public and community health relevance. We are especially interested in...
2022 Community Driven Research Day – January 27
Community-Driven Research Day (CDRD) encourages collaborations between researchers and community-based organizations (CBOs) and community groups who have research questions that they are interested in answering, specifically in ways that address social determinants of...
Two UPenn PRC investigators receive Penn’s Awards of Excellence for mentorship
Leadership recognized On October 26, 2021, the dean of the Perelman School of Medicine, announced the recipients of the 2021 Awards of Excellence. J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD writes, "The distinguished awardees exemplify our profession's highest values of scholarship,...
Making progress in the area of food insecurity & nutrition environments
On Tuesday, September 21, 2021, UPenn PRC director, Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH, co-chaired an NIH (trans-NIH) workshop called Food Insecurity, Neighborhood Food Environment, and Nutrition Health Disparities: State of the Science. It was presented virtually for three days,...
Healthy Weigh Study Results
What strategy works better for weight loss in overweight employees? Financial incentives Environment change strategies A combination of the two, On-your-own weight-loss efforts Drs. Karen Glanz and Kevin Volpp, along with the team at the UPenn PRC, found that...
Assessing and Addressing Nutrition and Health in our Communities
Learn more and register for this 3-day workshop addressing food insecurity, neighborhood food environment, and nutrition health disparities. Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH is among the organizers and will be participating in this important event. The goal is to review the...
2021 Community Scholars Symposium and Pitch Presentation
The Intersection of Community, Academia, and Grant-Making Friday, April 9, 2021 9:00AM – 12PM (Virtual) Register for the fifth annual Penn Community Scholars Symposium: The Intersection of Community, Academia, and Grant-Making. This symposium offers insights...
Research Day 2021 – Virtual & Open to the Public
Former US Preventive Services Task Force Chief Inspires Real Change: Join Us! The U.S. lags behind other developed nations in many health outcomes. How can we move from potential to actual health improvement? Be our guest virtually for DBEI & CCEB Research Day on...
Dr. Glanz named to new NAS committee
National collaboration on sunscreen science Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH, a George A. Weiss University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named to a new National Academy of Sciences committee: Committee on Environmental Impact of Currently Marketed...
Community-Driven Research Day
Information can be found here. Community-Based Organizations interested in presenting can register HERE (the deadline has just been extended to 1/29/21 ).Virtual Presentations Join us for the 11th annual Community-Driven Research Day, co-sponsored by the Center for...